Project Binky

Bad Obsession boys are back…..

I enjoyed that and the nostalgia horrors of the pinto engine.
*Got 2 in the garage as well.

latest from BOM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDI5jqQfce0&t=11s

Something else to start and not finish. They’re worse than me for good ideas that never get finished. However I’ve never managed to snag a load of patrons along the way to keep sending me £1/2/3/4/5 every month to do nothing.
I was a fan, I’m losing interest now and beginning to actually dislike them/BO. Feels a bit like they’ve realised there’s a few thousand people not realising they’ve signed up for patron and will leave it mothballed and let the money flow.

I really don’t care about Binky any more. Which is sad as I used to love the shows.

Yeah, I’m bored with it all, too

It’s not their car, at least read the blurb.

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Something else to start and not finish. They’re worse than me for good ideas that never get finished. However I’ve never managed to snag a load of patrons along the way to keep sending me £1/2/3/4/5 every month to do nothing.
I was a fan, I’m losing interest now and beginning to actually dislike them/BO. Feels a bit like they’ve realised there’s a few thousand people not realising they’ve signed up for patron and will leave it mothballed and let the money flow.

TBH I think it’s the game of thrones thing… They’ve gone so far with it and with all the complexity and expectation and the length of the journey they just don’t know how to finish it and make it as good as they want it to be. And not just their expectations but ours and all the patreon people. “finishing” a big project is always hard, and tbh after the driving scenes and the tardis madness of the final assembly, I dunno, it just seemed like it’s not going to live up to the dream. And probably it can’t, since it’s so far advanced and so complicated, how do you even start to sort issues? But stopping a project that isn’t perfect can be even harder than making it perfect.

What happen to the big yellow lorry project?

I really don’t care about Binky any more. Which is sad as I used to love the shows.

I’m kind of the same, after the first diving shots I’d kind of tune out of the project mainly ’cause I don’t like the track and turning circle.

But it’s not my car, if they like it fair enough, I don’t have a problem with that.

I do like the humor and dynamic between the two and really enjoyed the cheap race series they did.

And as some who has a project in the garage that’s +10yrs in I can relate.

@rocketdog Escargo got a third donor to solve the rear axle issue and, well, nothing. They keep saying they’re going to get back to it but obviously they haven’t.

I think @Northwind has it. Add in the fact that it was getting a full custom instrument package that was a huge time sink and required basically learning from scratch, plus COVID, plus supply chain, plus cost increases and it’s easy to see how it could stall for any one of a number of reasons. Plus personal lives.

And probably it can’t, since it’s so far advanced and so complicated, how do you even start to sort issues? 

yeah all that “flexi” drive stuff looked a bad design choice from the off! sometimes shit just doesn’t fit and once you stuck the largest wheel arches known to man on a small car no ones going pat you on the back for keeping bonnet looking stock.

Just seen this on Instagram, although I really like it, the build quality would be enough to make Nick break out in a cold sweat.

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His ceiling fan is both amazing and terrifying

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I do want to see if he ever gets his Penny Farming up and running

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PSA

Just noticed that Roadkill TV is back on Youtube if you’re into that sort of thing.

Plus lots of bootlegged/reshared older roadkill episodes 😉

Stay Tuned can be good too if you like that sort of thing- it’s Tony Angelo who used to be half of Hot Rod Garage, doing his own thing. As long as you can ignore the inevitable youtubeisms- the repetition and cynical episodism that you have to do to make the monetisation work- it can be really good, partly because they have a real budget but also they’re looking for good results, they’re not deliberately setting out to do bad work like so many youtubers are or halfassing it, they’re doing real world projects and filming it. I really enjoyed the “cyclone” truck build frinstance, it’s as close to normal-person car project stuff as it gets while also being reasonably well filmed.

Episode 39 of Project Binky is now up on YouTube!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Impressively obsessive once again

So glad they’ve carried on with it. Can’t believe it’s been nearly 2 years!

Absolutely bonkers commitment when they could have just used a Link screen and saved about a year of their lives!

**** hell they promised this one how long ago? Well I’ll watch that tomorrow.

I have so much respect for their anal attention to detail. That is truly a mental amount of time getting gauges to be perfect. It’s almost as though they are scared of finishing binky.

The attention to detail is a big part of the entertainment for me.

Such a shame that it won’t look stock when it’s finished though.

Good lord. Insane.

Such a shame that it won’t look stock when it’s finished though.

Because a mini with an MR2 drive train ever had a chance.

And there was me thinking they were milking it, when in reality they’ve spent the last two years learning to code and to 3D print metal. Absolute madmen.

Phenomenal achievement to make their own dash instruments from scratch like that. Though, surely those solder tracks are going to lift with the vibration from the engine?

@squirrelking, indeed, but they’ve put so much effort into not compromising things, it seems a shame.

Phenomenal achievement to make their own dash instruments from scratch like that. Though, surely those solder tracks are going to lift with the vibration from the engine?

Now they have a working model that has been proven for functionality I figure they’ll outsource the completed board schematic design to a pcb manufacturer, it doesn’t cost that much for individual boards to be etched if you have done all the design work beforehand and can present the pcb etcher with a complete schematic

Good on them for such detailed work and design, I’m sure this entire process is a massive learning process for themselves and will help their other projects

Such a shame that it won’t look stock when it’s finished though.

Why?

I don’t understand why they had to develop a 3d printer to print the solder. If the desire is to do everything themselves, just learn how to use a PCB schematic program, design the PCB (which they must have done anyway) and send it to any one of a dozen manufacturers who would do a better, more reliable job. It’s not like they’re making everything from lumps of steel.

The 3D printed solder let them rapid prototype  it, meaning they didn’t have to keep going back to the manufacturer and getting new PCBs made when they changed stuff halfway through.

In the time it took them to develop a 3d printer they could have had several iterations of a proper PCB.

Maybe, but it’s their project and theirs to **** about with as they please. Sometimes it’s fun to go the hard way.

There is going the hard way around and there’s reinventing the last 40 years worth of tech.  It’s absolute madness but I’ve nothing but admiration (and a lot of jealousy)

Well worth waiting for, impressive.

@kramer yeah I see where you’re coming from, they did talk a lot about that before the flared arches came out.

@richie_b I guess but maybe it was just a fun exercise to go through, maybe there was a perceived benefit to doing it that way? Who knows, I’m the last one to say anything about folk making a meal of a job though!

I have to admit to getting a bit bored about 1/3 of the way through – they just seemed to be faffing about and I was thinking there’s any number of nice digi dashes they could put in this thing, so I went to bed. Can’t help feeling they’re a bit bored of it.

Does it get better?

They don’t do any job lightly do they? I enjoyed it, but then I enjoyed watching them spending hours making a bracker.